{health & fitness}
Lovebird Tree Botanicals
Hill native Alex Bergman launches a 100% natural skincare line.
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by Meghan Markey
aging and look their best. If you’re a beauty junkie like me, you have baskets overflowing with serums, emulsions, and masks; and your shower looks like a pharmacy of conditioners, polishes, and fragrant shower gels. While women’s interest in beauty is as formidable as ever, the type of products they desire is changing. There is less of an interest in invasive treatments like Botox and aggressive, expensive creams. More and more women want simple, natural products that are still effective. Alex Bergman, who was raised on Capitol Hill by parents Rob and Lisa Bergman, understands this. Cultivating an appreciation in homeopathic remedies while at Edmund Burke High School, she researched botanicals and their potential benefits for skin. However, it wasn’t Alex Bergman with two of the products in her skincare line -- Lavender & Fir Tree Body Polish and Sea Bath. All her products are available until this past September through www.etsy.com that the 23-year-old middle school teacher of health and humanities at Edmund Burke’s Middle School (yes, she is a teacher at her former school), decided to use this knowledge to create a line of 100% natural skincare and bath products. Adorably named Lovebird Tree Botanicals, all of her products are homemade to order in her parent’s kitchen and sold through the craftoriented website Etsy. The line includes bath salt soaks infused with natural essences ake a look in any woman’s bathroom, and odds are there are lotions, facial washes, moisturizers, and any number of products designed to help women slow down the inevitable signs of
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